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Preuss -> (12/15/2002 4:50:23 AM)
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Interesting that anyone could get bent out of shape about this topic. I'm certain it was placed to to get us to talk, and share ideas. Not to cause hatred.
There were so many bad performers, that it's hard to pick out the worst.
Hohenlohe, like his army was about 70 years out of date.
Mack, like most other Austrian generals tended to do too little, too late...only for him it came at a very bad time.
Ney...well, he certainly made more than a few errors.
Grouchy, never liked him, will forever be cursed for dillatoriness
Kutuzov, well deserved of his "wily" title did next to nothing at Borodino while artillery shredded his army.
EVen the great Napoleon let 200,000 men starve to death during the 1813 campaign.
During the winter of 1806-07 Bennigsen gave the grande armee a good bleeding, but in the spring, suffered massive defeat.
Marechal Macdonald is rated highly in most games, but was forever unlucky on the field.
Even so, I'm going to put down the entire Marechelate (sp?) as the "worst" general. Away from the emperor they all failed more often then not. Yes, there are some glaring examples where they did well as long as only one marechal was present. But, put two or more together with no emperor nearby...and disaster was in the making.
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